The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, established in December 2019. Its primary role is to organize, train, and equip space forces to protect U.S. and allied interests in space by ensuring space superiority. The USSF manages space launch operations, satellite operations, space environment surveillance, and satellite defense, and partners with organizations like NASA on space domain awareness and planetary defense. Key areas of focus include missile warning, satellite communications, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
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The Space Force estimates the contract for the second and third DARC sites will be awarded in late 2023 or early 2024.
The U.S. Space Force intends to award Northrop Grumman a sole-source contract to develop two ground-based radar sites to track space objects.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency announced on 2023-08-17 that the selected companies will conduct three-month studies.
The Space Force expects the second DARC site to be ready by 2028 and the third by 2029.
SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the U.S. Space Force, awarded the contract in support of the Orbital Prime program to develop technologies for space debris cleanup and other on-orbit services.
Terran Orbital has a smaller deal with Lockheed Martin to deliver 10 satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency missile-tracking LEO constellation.
Wallaroo Labs (Wallaroo.ai) won a $1,500,000 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 2 contract from the U.S. Space Force to continue development of machine learning models for edge computers in orbit.
The U.S. Space Force has ordered two additional GSSAP satellites (GSSAP 7 and GSSAP 8) from Northrop Grumman.
The CAPS ground system was delivered to the U.S. Space Force in March following completion of the site acceptance test, functional configuration audit/physical configuration audit, and DD-250 sell-off.
Scout Space and the Stanford University Space Rendezvous Laboratory won a $1,500,000 contract to help the U.S. Space Force characterize spacecraft and debris objects.
The CAPS ground system was delivered to the U.S. Space Force in March after successful completion of the site acceptance test, functional configuration audit/physical configuration audit, and DD-250 sell-off.
The 13 satellites are scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Momentus offered the M-1000 to the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency for its Tranche 2 Transport Layer Alpha program of 50 satellites, with proposals due to SDA in July.
Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A communications satellite designed by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency passed a critical design review on 2023-08-07.
SpaceX is targeting Sunday, 2023-08-06 at 10:41 p.m. ET (02:41 UTC on 2023-08-07) for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida.
Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:00 a.m. EDT.
Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Galaxy-37/Horizons-4 launched on 2023-08-03 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 1:00 a.m. Eastern.
Xona Space Systems partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Space Force to work toward a secure Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing architecture leveraging Xona’s PULSAR service.